jackmott

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by jackmott 4y ago
People weaponizing “non consensual porn” to attack this are going to also need to ban pencils, keyboards, and police thoughts. good luck! and merry christmas
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by jackmott 4y ago
You only need a 220volt plug, then its fine. You can also leave it overnight just fine. I think plugging a 110v during the cold is kind of an edge case, the car tries to charge but it makes thing worse. Maybe a software update would cure
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by jackmott 4y ago
My father in laws truck wouldn’t start this winter in texas because the diesel froze. My EV worked great and thanks to the low temps the battery will be degrading a bit slower with age for a few days. But yes I take a 15% range hit
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by jackmott 4y ago
I am a progressive and I think the speech codes are silly and sometimes even harmful.
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by jackmott 4y ago
Never has a car elicited such emotion from the crowd, it is amazing to see
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by jackmott 4y ago
The track still wasnt dry, you can see the moisture
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by jackmott 4y ago
EVs don’t normally have a transmission to break. just reduction gears which are beefy.
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by jackmott 4y ago
solar cells can have a decent impact on very exotic efficient designs like the aptera. On a normal sedan it is better to put the solar panel elsewhere than the car
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by jackmott 4y ago
plenty of accurate ways to critique elon, no need to make yourself look foolish by suggesting tesla and spacex and other ventures are just ponzi schemes.
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by jackmott 4y ago
you can reverse engineer how big the battery is from stated range and efficiency. around 900kwh plus or minus 50
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by jackmott 4y ago
But you forget to mention that the disagreements are things like: “I think you dont have the right to exist because you are gay or black or non christian “ or “nevermind democracy trump should be president even though he lost” People aren’
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by jackmott 4y ago
You are making strong assertions that are not strongly supported by evidence. Strong emotional reactions can happen for all kinds of hormonal disruptions including both added testosterone and all of the indirect consequences of using it (s
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by jackmott 4y ago
“good, leave. invading another people is abhorrent” The invasion is the war crime and should have been enough for the whole world to respond en masse to refuse allow it. The world should do the same if the USA ever invades anywhere again as
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by jackmott 4y ago
Gearbox serves more purpose than just getting the power to the wheel, it also improves the efficiency of the motor and\or expands and optimizes the usable speed range of the motor. Also cars can stop way harder than any regen can, massive a
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by jackmott 4y ago
Well the fragility of low profile wheel/tire packages is true at least
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by jackmott 4y ago
Privacy reasons? All the privacy concerns are going into both types of cars.
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by jackmott 4y ago
Could it be because the information age causes companies to compete on price much more aggressively? You can’t easily prove that your fridge really will last longer, but easy to price the price is low.
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by jackmott 4y ago
Seems like the correlations between IQ tests and life outcomes related to this ill defined questions does imply a degree of crossover in rotating shape skill and dealing with the ambiguities of life. However that is probably genetic or due
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by jackmott 4y ago
Yeah it is either a fantastic bit of art or hilarious lack of awareness of the irony. The guy actually reminds me of a coworker that I like a lot who is on the spectrum. Once in a meeting a manager was describing why we needed to do some
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by jackmott 4y ago
Josh is a great person and the internet is also full of in depth aerodynamic and rolling resistance information thanks to him.
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by jackmott 4y ago
It is all electric rear wheel drive with two fans that suck it to the ground, and the skirt lasts a long time!
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by jackmott 4y ago
These are all easily solved problems we are familiar with compared to getting spaceships there accurately. But yes usually these plans call for a swarm of these ships
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by jackmott 4y ago
All cars are doing this stuff, it isn’t EV specific
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by jackmott 4y ago
It certainly echos the approach of other tech companies like google and apple. Save money and reduce risk by not giving your employees any power or freedom to think on their own. Or not having employees even exist when possible. The cus
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by jackmott 4y ago
It isn’t uncalled for, what is uncalled for is how in the modern era you can’t talk about fucking anything without a conspiratorial interjection like yours, always without evidence, derailing fucking every conversation and every attempt to
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by jackmott 9y ago
work in progress that uses Nim macros to make a nice SIMD library: https://github.com/jackmott/nim_simd
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by jackmott 9y ago
>.(I usually write apis that are utilized by end user apis). When that is the case you need to think long and hard about performance, because it needs to not just be fast enough for you, on your machine, but on any conceivable end users
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by jackmott 9y ago
> I also suspect that programming languages have not advanced in any significant way since around 1990 I would have said not much since 1970? 1950? What big new things have their been?
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by jackmott 9y ago
they don't teach excel in the comp sci department at Rice.
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by jackmott 9y ago
>but it's basically so misleading as to be a flat out lie that those cars are electric. If plug in hybrids count but non plug in hybrids do not, then I disagree with you.

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